I represent Benjamin Baynton, a lieutenant in the Provincial Corps of Pennsylvania Loyalists. I was one of the first officers recruited by commander William Allen for the regiment. I was from Philadelphia, from a large and influential family, though I was the only Loyalist of the bunch. In early January 1781, a few months after the Spanish had captured Mobile, General Campbell sent a group of Waldeckers, Maryland and Pennsylvania Loyalists, and indigenous warriors to The Village (on the eastern shore near the head of Mobile Bay) in an attempted counterattack against the Spanish. The attack ended in defeat and we retreated back to Pensacola. I was shot in the left arm above the elbow just as I had gotten over the palisades, and also received a wound from a bayonet. After the surrender of Pensacola, I and the rest of the prisoners of war were sent north, to New Town, Long Island, New York, under parole until we could be exchanged. During this time I appeared to suffer from either depression or PTSD, remaining in my quarters and refusing contact with my fellows. The Pensacola survivors were exchanged in July 1782 and allowed back to duty, though I left for England before the evacuation of New York in 1783.
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